PLEASE SEE MY HOME PAGE ---"THE MORGAN BRAY FAMILY HOME PAGE" LOCATED ON FAMILYTREEMAKE.COM MORGAN & DIANNA BRAY -----Original Message----- From: pbwelch <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, February 19, 1998 7:25 PM Subject: Re: [BRAY-L] BRAY, James-1860-Pulaski Co., KY >Nancy, > >I found the following: > >John GOLDING md Jane > | >Stephen GOLDING b. 6 Mar 1788, Monongahela, VA, md ca 1810 Jershua BRAY > Jershua b. Oct. 1792, Nelson? KY, d. 6 Nov. 1875 in Utah. Stephen died >20 Dec. 1858 in Utah Territory > Jershua was the daughter of Peter BRAY Sarah ATHERTON b. ca. 1770 > Peter b. ca. 1767, md. 17 Feb 1790, Nelson, KY. He d. 23 Oct 1838, >Ross, OH > > >Jonathan Emerson GOLDING b. 1832 in Fayette, IN d. 15 May 1875 in Salt >Lake City, S.L., UT md. in 1869 Elizabeth CHERRINGTON b. 23 May 1846 in >Staffshire, Eng, d. 10 Jul 1887 in Costilla, CO > >Johathan was the son of Stephen GOLDING and Jershua BRAY. > >Peter BRAY was the son of Henry BRAY b. ca. 1738, Washington, MD d. 2 >Mar 1792 in Nelson, KY. Henry was md. before 1753 to Catheryn b. ca. >1831, d. after 1800 in Nelson, KY > >Do you need any further ancestors on the Athertons? I have a copy of a >DAR lineage with the above and others. The Ancestor was Henry Bray of >Washington Co, MD who was a Patriot. The applicant is Georgia Ann Evans >Halter. > >Do you have the KY land grants for these and other Brays? I have a list, >which may not be complete. I have a family group sheet for Henry Bray >and Cathryn. > >Pat > >[email protected] wrote: >> >> Pat and other BRAY Pals, >> Thank you for your reply. I do have both of Mrs. Reese's books,THE BRAYS OF >> FISHER RIVER, and have found them very helpful. Actually, I should have been >> more specific, I guess, in my post. I meant I was seeking others searching >> that line. >> What I have proof of: >> My grandfather was James Edward("Ed") BRAY, b. July 31, 1879 in Barbourville, >> Knox Co., KY, s/o Bryant BRAY and Martha Jane HOWERTON. (This from his death >> certificate, d. Feb. 2, 1921, construction cave-in in Devol, Cotton Co., OK.) >> >> Bryant BRAY was 23 when he married Martha Jane HOWERTON,17,from TN, April 7, >> 1876 in Barbourville, Knox Co., KY. "at James HOWERTON"s, according to >> wedding application dated 5 April, 1876. >> >> I believe: >> from census records, Reese's data, and notes I have received from others: >> This Bryant was the son of aforementioned James BRAY,who married Mary "Winny" >> GOLDEN, d/o Stephen GOLDEN and James was the s/o the "Old" Bryant BRAY from >> Surry Co., NC. who was also married to another Martha, called "Patsy". One >> group sheet I have from an "older" researcher(age AND timewise) says Bryant >> was the son of Peter and Martha(SCOTT)BRAY, Peter, being b. in England ca. >> 1718. >> In other words: Peter+MarthaSCOTT>Bryant+Martha?>James and Winney >> GOLDEN>Bryant+Martha HOWERTON>James "Ed"+ Sofronie STEVENSON. >> >> Another group sheet shows James(the elder)b.1826 in Hancock Co., TN., >> marriage 14 June 1849 in Knox Co., KY, and d. 14 Sept. 1863 Jessimine Co. KY >> buried in Camp Nelson, KY. Lived in Knox, Pulaski, and Whitley Co.s ,KY. >> >> This information was compiled by Carlyn Bray MILLS, whose greatgrandfather >> was James' and Winney's son, John R.(A.) BRAY,(Bryant the second's >> brother)who married Mary C. BAYS 17 Oct.1881. It was from 1996 and was >> passed on to me last year, with mail to her address in Ludlow, KY being >> returned, and her trail lost. >> >> Would very much like to locate her, if anyone has a connection or >> information, as well as confirmation or corrections. I also have some other >> land, tax, military records I'd like to share and compare with others. >> >> Are there others working this line?(further down?) >> With all this info and the proximity of all of the various ones in the >> Cumberland/Appalachia area, I haven't connected with any *Family* on this >> line. >> >> Who did "Old Bryant" marry? (Patsy who?) >> >> Thanks for all your help. >> Nancy >> > > >==== BRAY Mailing List ==== >2 If posting URLs please excerpt ON topic data & proper credits :) >Sources needed, please - can you help? Thanks for your cooperation. >Cheers! please read detail in Welcome message or ask Harold. >Special topics: genetics, books, places mailto:[email protected] >